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Task is as simple as running:</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">brew </span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">install</span><spanclass="token plain"> go-task/tap/go-task</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="snap"><strong>Snap</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#snap"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>Task is available in <ahref="https://snapcraft.io/task"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Snapcraft</a>, but keep in mind that your
Linux distribution should allow classic confinement for Snaps to Task work
right:</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">sudo</span><spanclass="token plain"> snap </span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">install</span><spanclass="token plain"> task --classic</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="chocolatey"><strong>Chocolatey</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#chocolatey"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>If you're on Windows and have <ahref="https://chocolatey.org/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Chocolatey</a> installed, getting
Task is as simple as running:</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">choco </span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">install</span><spanclass="token plain"> go-task</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>This installation method is community owned.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="scoop"><strong>Scoop</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#scoop"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>If you're on Windows and have <ahref="https://scoop.sh/"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">Scoop</a> installed, use <code>extras</code> bucket
to install Task like:</p><divclass="language-cmd codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-cmd codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">scoop bucket add extras</span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">scoop install task</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>This installation method is community owned. After a new release of Task, it
may take some time until it's available on Scoop.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="aur"><strong>AUR</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#aur"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>If you're on Arch Linux you can install Task from
<ahref="https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/taskfile-git"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">AUR</a> using your favorite
package manager such as <code>yay</code>, <code>pacaur</code> or <code>yaourt</code>:</p><divclass="language-cmd codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-cmd codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">yay -S taskfile-git</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>This installation method is community owned, but since it's <code>-git</code> version of
the package, it's always latest available version based on the Git repository.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="nix"><strong>Nix</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#nix"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>If you're on NixOS or have Nix installed
you can install Task from <ahref="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">nixpkgs</a>:</p><divclass="language-cmd codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-cmd codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain">nix-env -iA nixpkgs.go-task</span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><p>This installation method is community owned. After a new release of Task, it
may take some time until it's available in <ahref="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">nixpkgs</a>.</p><h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="get-the-binary">Get The Binary<aclass="hash-link"href="#get-the-binary"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h2><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="binary"><strong>Binary</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#binary"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>You can download the binary from the <ahref="https://github.com/go-task/task/releases"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">releases page on GitHub</a> and
add to your <code>$PATH</code>.</p><p>DEB and RPM packages are also available.</p><p>The <code>task_checksums.txt</code> file contains the SHA-256 checksum for each file.</p><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="install-script"><strong>Install Script</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#install-script"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>We also have an <ahref="https://github.com/go-task/task/blob/master/install-task.sh"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">install script</a> which is very useful in
scenarios like CI. Many thanks to <ahref="https://github.com/goreleaser/godownloader"target="_blank"rel="noopener noreferrer">GoDownloader</a> for enabling the
easy generation of this script.</p><divclass="language-bash codeBlockContainer_MPoW theme-code-block"style="--prism-color:#393A34;--prism-background-color:#f6f8fa"><divclass="codeBlockContent_B9tL"><pretabindex="0"class="prism-code language-bash codeBlock__0OG thin-scrollbar"><codeclass="codeBlockLines_gEuF"><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token comment"style="color:#999988;font-style:italic"># For Default Installation to ./bin with debug logging</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">sh</span><spanclass="token plain"> -c </span><spanclass="token string"style="color:#e3116c">"</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa">$(</span><spanclass="token string variable function"style="color:#d73a49">curl</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa"> --location https://taskfile.dev/install.sh</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa">)</span><spanclass="token string"style="color:#e3116c">"</span><spanclass="token plain"> -- -d</span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:#999988;font-style:italic"># For Installation To /usr/local/bin for userwide access with debug logging</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token comment"style="color:#999988;font-style:italic"># May require sudo sh</span><spanclass="token plain"></span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"></span><spanclass="token function"style="color:#d73a49">sh</span><spanclass="token plain"> -c </span><spanclass="token string"style="color:#e3116c">"</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa">$(</span><spanclass="token string variable function"style="color:#d73a49">curl</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa"> --location https://taskfile.dev/install.sh</span><spanclass="token string variable"style="color:#36acaa">)</span><spanclass="token string"style="color:#e3116c">"</span><spanclass="token plain"> -- -d -b /usr/local/bin</span><br></span><spanclass="token-line"style="color:#393A34"><spanclass="token plain"style="display:inline-block"></span><br></span></code></pre><divclass="buttonGroup_hRr1"><buttontype="button"aria-label="Copy code to clipboard"title="Copy"class="clean-btn"><spanclass="copyButtonIcons_W9eQ"aria-hidden="true"><svgclass="copyButtonIcon_XEyF"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M19,21H8V7H19M19,5H8A2,2 0 0,0 6,7V21A2,2 0 0,0 8,23H19A2,2 0 0,0 21,21V7A2,2 0 0,0 19,5M16,1H4A2,2 0 0,0 2,3V17H4V3H16V1Z"></path></svg><svgclass="copyButtonSuccessIcon_i9w9"viewBox="0 0 24 24"><pathd="M21,7L9,19L3.5,13.5L4.91,12.09L9,16.17L19.59,5.59L21,7Z"></path></svg></span></button></div></div></div><divclass="admonition admonition-info alert alert--info"><divclass="admonition-heading"><h5><spanclass="admonition-icon"><svgxmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"width="14"height="16"viewBox="0 0 14 16"><pathfill-rule="evenodd"d="M7 2.3c3.14 0 5.7 2.56 5.7 5.7s-2.56 5.7-5.7 5.7A5.71 5.71 0 0 1 1.3 8c0-3.14 2.56-5.7 5.7-5.7zM7 1C3.14 1 0 4.14 0 8s3.14 7 7 7 7-3.14 7-7-3.14-7-7-7zm1 3H6v5h2V4zm0 6H6v2h2v-2z"></path></svg></span>info</h5></div><divclass="admonition-content"><p>This method will download the binary on the local <code>./bin</code> directory by default.</p></div></div><h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_mojV"id="github-actions"><strong>GitHub Actions</strong><aclass="hash-link"href="#github-actions"title="Direct link to heading"></a></h3><p>If you want to install Task in GitHub Actions you can try using
